and was negligent. Call it a drone -- but instead of in the sky -- it's in the water. A team from the University of Hawaii is showing off its new Unmanned Port Security Vessel. And as KITV4's Lara Yamada shows us ... ...it could help wtih everything from tsunamis -- to molasses spills. NATS: 3918 Inside each hull is a battery. NATS: 3855 So the orange one is a side scan sonar. 6 feet long. 4 feet wide. 160 pounds. And capable of DOING what the US Coast Guard NEEDS. MARGOT 326- 30 We'd like to make lots and lots of these things! It's called an Unmanned Port Security Vessel -- created by a team of engineers from the University of Hawaii -- and built to protect harbors and lives. BRIAN 1631-39 If there's a tsunami, a hurricane, a terrorist event, to go out and collect information to reopen the port as quickly as possible. NATS: JPN TSUNAMI MARGO 224-29 In the case of Fukushima we had radio activity that we didn't want to expose divers to. NATS: 4207 Very techie. Packed with computers, cameras, and sensors ... ...the robotic roomba can scan ports day and night with its infrared eye. ...map debris with painstaking detail -- line by line -- or programed by controlers. ...or monitor water quality -- the coast guard saying they could have used one of these during that massive molasses spill last month. JAC 1202-11 One of our taglines is solving the problems that matter most. So it's going after those problems and I just see this as the first of many things we're going to do with the University of Hawaii. Global innovation leader Battelle already wants to make ONE... into MANY. The company is asking for 20 units a year, but says it would love 100. A sign UH students are on track toward a successful future. BRIAN 2140-48 Events like this where they can see the project all the way to the end they understand what it's like to really do this in the real world. MARGOT 142-47 We really want to bring in new technologies developed here in Hawaii for Hawaii with Hawaii's students. Lara Yamada KITV4 News. This project is part of the U-H Innovation Initiative. The university's goal is to partner with the community to build a 1 BILLION DOLLAR annual research enterprise in Hawaii ... to create